Siler City, NC – The North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center named Siler City the Small Town of the Year at its annual N.C. Rural Assembly on September 28, 2015. From 2010-2013, Siler City participated in the Rural Center’s Small…
Greensboro, NC – Florida State and North Carolina led the way with two honorees apiece as the Atlantic Coast Conference announced Football Players of the Week on Monday. Florida State’s Terrance Smith was cited as the ACC Linebacker of the…
Greensboro, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference Monday announced the following game times and networks for Oct. 1-3. The Miami at Cincinnati game on Thursday, Oct. 1 had been previously announced. Locally, the Louisville Cardinals will be playing NC State Wolfpack at…
Pittsboro, NC – “Stinking Creek is stinkin’ again so we are returning there on Oct. 10,” said Fran DiGiano, president of Clean Jordan Lake. “Since our volunteers were last here in 2012 much more trash has piled up on the…
Pittsboro, NC – Preservation North Carolina has presented Chatham County with a major statewide award recognizing the rebuilding and restoration of the Chatham County Historic Courthouse. The project earned the 2015 Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit, which was presented…
By Debbie Roos Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission are teaming up to conduct a Wildlife Workshop Series for landowners. The second workshop, Managing your Land for Non-game…
By Jay Schalin Chapel Hill, NC – At the start of the fall semester, a freshman student at UNC-Chapel Hill gave the syllabus for ENG 72: Literature of 9/11 a cursory look and, perceiving an anti-American bias, brought it to…
Chapel Hill, NC – Woods Charter School students Lacey Berg, Julianna Puccio, Justina Stewart, and Kaylee Tugwell, with support from the Woods Charter School Foundation, will travel to the United Nations headquarters on October 9 for Girls Speak Out, part…
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Board of Elections Absentee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 5 pm has been cancelled. There are no absentee ballot applications to be considered for the October 6, 2015 Cary Municipal Election.…
By Jesse Saffron and Jenna A. Robinson Chapel Hill, NC – The average annual income in North Carolina is just over $40,000. But senior-level bureaucrats in the University of North Carolina system’s General Administration (GA)—who take home six-figure salaries—say they…